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24 Rhode Island delegates are expected in Philadelphia Monday for the Democratic National Convention. Rhode Island Democratic Party spokeswoman Ann Gooding said she expects several issues to crop up as the party works to determine a platform.

“Better wages for workers, healthcare for employees, affordable college education,” said Gooding. “Those are the primary movers for democrats and I think those will be the issues that people want to see articulated by Hillary Clinton and I think people will come together on that.”

Philadelphia is firing principals in the latest scandal over cheating on standardized tests. As The New York Times reports, a large number of erasure marks in testing booklets raised red flags and led to the investigation that uncovered the cheating.

The scandal, one of the largest in the country, has implicated 137 educators at 27 different schools over a three-year period.